Tie-plate.



PATENTED OCT. 9, 1906.

' A. G. SHANB..

TIB PLATE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 1B. 1905.

UNITED srA'rEs PATENT oEEioE.

` ALEXANDER o. sHAND, or NAEBEETH, PENNSYLVANIA.

TIE-PLATE. f*

l Specification of Letters Patent Application iiled Novembenl, 1905. Serial No. 288,053.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906'.

To all whom it may concern,.- f

Beit known that I, ALEXANDER C. SHAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Narberth, Montgomery county, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in T ie-Plates, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a section through a rail, showing my tie-pl ate as in use in connection with the splice-bars. Fig. 2 is a similar section to Fig. 1, but showing the tie-plate as in use with a rail at a point where there are no splicebars-that is, at a point remo'te from the joint between two rails. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the tieplate embodying my invention.

The object of this invention is to provide a tie-plate for use with railroad-rails which may be used either at a joint between rails in connection with the usual splice-bars or at.

a point intermediate such'joints in connection with the rail.

To this end the invention consists in providing the u'ppersurface of the plate with it serves as a secure sto not quite extend to t e to whose inner Wallfis substantially vertical, as

two longitud1nally-extending ribs whose inner substantially vertical walls are a distance a art corresponding with the distance from t e outer edge of the foot of a rail to the outer edge of the foot of a splice-bar when in use, and the outer of said ribs being of such height as to inipinge against a s lice-bar foot when in use in connection t erewith, the inner rib being of such height that while for the rail-foot will thereof at its outer edge, whereby the sp ice-bar may be seated against the upper surface of the foot of the rail Without impinging upon the said inner rib.

' The recise character \of the invention will be hereinafter pointed out.

In the drawings, A represents a base or body portion comprising a plate adapted to seat upon a tie or sleeper. wardly from said plate, adjacent vone end thereof, is a longitudinally-extending rib B,

seen, said rib being of a height to engage the outer edge of the foot of-'a splice-bar S, .of usual construction, as seen'in Fin. 1. Also projecting u Wardly fromy said p ate A is a second rib paralel with sai first-mentioned rib and .substantially like the- .latter,.

Extending up-` except that the rib C is of a height from the upper surface of the plate A just sufficient to engage the outer edge of the foot of a rail R, and which when the tie-plate is used in connection with splice-bars, as seen in Fig. 1, will be lower than the under surface of said splice-bar foot. The distance apart of the inner walls of said ribs B and C is the distance between the outer edge of the foot of the rail R and the outer edge of the .foot of the splice-bar S, wherebywhen the tie-plate is used at a joint 'the rib B will engage and support the splice-bar S and the rib C will similarly engage andsupport the rail R, all as seen in F ig. 1. Vv'hen the tie plate is used intermediate of a joint-that is, where the rail is devoid of splice-bars-thc rib C alone is in action coming against and SF2) supporting the foot of the rail R, asseen in The tie-plate A is rovided with suitable spike-holes d, d', and 2, the inner 'wall of the one, d, on the same side of the rail as the ribs B and C being substantially in line with the inner wall of said rib C, as seen, whereby when the spike is driven through said hole into the tie its inner side shall be in contact with the rail-foot, as also is the rib C. When the tie-plate is used at a joint, the spikes will of course ass through the usual slotways in the foot o the splice-bars, as seen in Fig. 1.

- The holes d and d2 on the opposite side of the rail are of course' of a distance from the hole d corres onding with the width of the foot of the rai R.

Having' thus described any invention, I

, claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A tie-plate having two parallel longitudinal ribs on its upper side, the distance apart of whose inner' faces is substantially equal to the distance between the side'of the foot-flange of a rail and the side of the footlan'ge o a splicabar', whenthe latter is secured to said -rail, the inner one of said lribs being somewhat less in height than the distance 'from the under side ofthe footflange of the splice-bar adjacent the outer 5 edge of the railffoot-iiange, to the ulpper surio apart of whose inner faces is substantially equal to the distance between the side of the .foot-Harige of a rail and the side of thefootflange of a 4splice-bar, when the latter is secured to said rail, the inner one of said ribs i 5 being less in height than the distance from the under side of the foot-flange of the s lice# bar adjacent the outer edge of the foot. ange of the rail to the upper surface ofthe tieplate, said late havlng a s ikefhole between :o said ribs, t e inner edge o which spike-hole is in line substantially with the inner face of the inner one of said ribs, substantially as set forth.

4.1A tie-plate having two. parallel, longitudinal ribs on its upper side, the distance apart of whose inner faces is substantially equal to the distance between the side of the foot-flange of a rail andthe-side ofV the footflange of a splice-bar, when the latter is secured to said rail, the inner one of said ribs being less in height than the distance from the under side of the foot-lian e of the splice-bar adjacent the outer edge o? the foot-flan e of the rail to the upper surface of the tie-p ate, said plate having a spike hole or holes, whose inner side is a distance from the inner side of the inner of said ribs substantially equal to the width of the floot-flange of said rail, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof aflixed my signature.

ALEXANDER c. SHAND.

I have i hereunto Witnesses: x

WM. H. SMITH, 4 WALTER C. PUSEY.

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